Chapter 1164: Another Wing
Silicon Valley is a holy place in the hearts of global technology enthusiasts, people who want to become famous overnight, and people who want to make a fortune in the next 40 years.
There are countless tech companies out of it.
Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, Apple, Google, Death or Death...... And so on, all from here.
For this reason, it is also known as the place where technology is at the forefront and where people are most inspired to invent and create.
But in fact, people's understanding of it is still very different.
At least at its peak, only 60% of the more than 10,000 companies were technology innovation companies, and the remaining 40% were companies that provided them with various services, such as small studios specializing in the development of supporting software, small companies that provided after-sales services, information consulting and provision, financial support and angel investment, etc.
Of course, the companies living in Silicon Valley are not as good as people think, and every company is making a lot of money, like Google, Die or Die, etc.
In fact, if you don't come to Silicon Valley for five years, then you won't find 500 companies in Silicon Valley that you are familiar with. This is true for both technology innovation companies and supporting service companies.
The odds of a replacement here are insane.
Every day new companies are born and old ones go out of business every day. - Not one, two, but dozens!
As a well-known angel investment CEO said, "We have seen too many companies in Silicon Valley over the years, and many companies are excellent in their creativity and initial stage, even Facebook and Google, but they have not survived in the end." Silicon Valley is not only the origin of dreams, but also the burial place of dreams!"
Yin Jun didn't think about what kind of investment genius he wanted to be in Silicon Valley, he was not interested in it.
The assets in Xiangjiang have long been enough for him to use for a lifetime, and now he only thinks about how to make his film entertainment career better, catch up with Hollywood as soon as possible, and even surpass them.
In fact, in the eighties of the twentieth century, the gap between Hollywood and Hong Kong was really not that big.
Even the space opera "Star Wars," which Americans boast about, is more like a toy movie with inferior special effects, and apart from leaving a sacred position in the hearts of the Americans, it has caused little sensation overseas.
Later, it was only because of the continuous development of special effects that the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy was more like a separate story, so it picked up the old stalk again, revitalized the "Star Wars" series, and finally was successfully cashed out by Lucas for billions of dollars and sold to Disney, which is really a good business!
I feel a little jealous when I think about it.
It's not bragging, Lucas has just eaten such a movie IP in his life, and he has made tens of billions of dollars before and after, which is really a miracle in film history!
Although Xiangjiang in the previous life also produced a "Interstellar Blunt Tire" that imitated "Star Wars", which was a bit of a ruin of the three views, but this is a filmmaker representing Xiangjiang in the 80s, in fact, he still wants to do more tricks.
Including Golden Harvest, the 80s were full of high-quality products, coupled with the many ghosts of the new art city, from the 80s to the early 90s, the invincible opponents in Asia and the strength to compete with Hollywood are indeed not boasted.
When was that when was the Xiangjiang movie suddenly pulled up a notch by Hollywood, and it was getting farther and farther away?
Sensei said that the plot is plagiarized, there is no innovation or anything, Hollywood is actually that set, repeatedly, let alone the boss.
Even in terms of storyline, they are not as good as Xiangjiang.
The first time a real Hollywood movie defeated a Hong Kong movie was in 1993.
That year, Xiangjiang Movies was at its peak.
The first place in the box office that year was "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", which people can't forget 30 years later.
And then there is "Happy Events in the Flower Field", the pinnacle of Huang Baiming's funny.
There are also Cheng Long's "City Hunter" and "Serious Crime Unit".
There are also Li Lianjie's "Fang Shiyu" and "Huang Feihong's Lion King Competition".
and "East Becomes West", which saved the life of the king of sunglasses, was also broadcast this year.
Even some movies that are not too well-known, but they are very good-looking, such as "Nerve Knife and Flying Lynx", "Genuine Wei Xiaobao's Pickled Girl", "The Resurgence of the Undefeated Storm in the East", "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", "Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Demon Sect Leader", ...... And so on, it was also released in this year.
But it was so many wonderful Xiangjiang movies that were directly crushed by the big dinosaur - "Jurassic Park".
The local box office champion of Xiangjiang "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" is about 40.17 million.
The box office of "Jurassic Park" is as high as more than 61.8 million!
That's more than 20 million!
This record was not broken by "Titanic" until 14 years later.
And so far, no Xiangjiang movie has reached this figure.
The best result is "Kung Fu" in 2004, but its box office is around 61.28 million Hong Kong dollars, which is still hundreds of thousands short.
This is still without converting the price level.
This shows how much "Jurassic Park" crushes Xiangjiang movies.
But the most important thing is not that it has crushed so many classics in Xiangjiang.
The most terrible thing is that this large pile of dinosaurs has been crushed from Xiangjiang to Japan, from Japan to South Korea, and then to the Philippines and Malaysia...... The entire Asian box office has fallen.
Since then, the outer ports of Xiangjiang have gradually been occupied by Hollywood movies, and have gradually been squeezed out, and they will never be as grand as they were in the past.
After losing the foreign market, just relying on the local film market in Xiangjiang can't feed so many filmmakers!
So Xiangjiang Films itself collapsed, some people retired, some people went to Hollywood, and the rest ...... It will continue to be the case until 2020.
The significance of "Jurassic Park" to Hollywood is also very significant.
It suddenly made Hollywood understand what kind of movies the audience needs, what kind of movies the audience likes, and what kind of movies can arouse the love of audiences around the world.
Since "Jurassic Park", Hollywood has attached great importance to various special effects technology and computer technology, and has successively launched many special effects movies, and finally got a collection of super comic hero movies, thus officially dominating the global film market, and no country's films can compete with them.
A super movie like "Wolf Warrior 2", which gathers the right time and place, is just an accident in China, and within ten or eight years, don't think about such a super box office miracle.
Hollywood's decades of market cultivation and cultivation, coupled with the policy of exporting American culture, and the fact that the United States represents the most advanced and powerful country in the world, are all destined to be unable to catch up with other countries.
Even if Huaguo wants to catch up, without twenty or thirty years of hard work, you don't even want to talk about it.
After all, this is a problem of the entire film industry, not only film companies, but also special effects companies, distribution and publicity companies, and even large enterprises in the United States.
Back to Jurassic Park.
In fact, many people don't know that the special effects production of "Jurassic Park" is not at all the computer software production, green screen production, and motion light point capture dynamic simulation that we thought in later generations...... and so on, but made by relatively simple means.
After all, at that time, IN95 hadn't come out yet.
The first thing about "Jurassic Park" is to rely on Stan Winston's digital realm to make a large number of dinosaur models of all sizes and dinosaurs, to the point of being fake.
Another killer feature is that they found a company called Silicon Map, which has a graphics workstation technology, similar to the current animation workbench of Osamu Tezuka, but more detailed, with powerful geometry, physical computing and acceleration capabilities, which can dynamically change the image.
To put it bluntly, this is a super-enhanced version of the second-rate cartoon of the Japanese version.
So the dinosaurs we see in "Jurassic Park" will be so lifelike and run so naturally.
"Jurassic Park" exploded with so much power under the direction of Spielberg, and the behind-the-scenes efforts of the above two are definitely a crucial part.
Now the digital field is in Yin Jun's hands.
If Yin Jun wants to make "Jurassic Park" and regard it as one of the masterpieces of Kirin Movies, then he definitely needs to get the cooperation of Silicon Map.
It just so happens that Silicon Map was only founded this year, two weeks ago.
Yin Jun has always been paying attention to it, and when it was registered, there was naturally public information, and it was convenient for Yin Jun to find someone.
So Yin Jun took advantage of the time now to try to get the company done.
The cooperation is certain, and if there is an opportunity, Yin Jun hopes to inject capital into the company and become its shareholder, preferably the largest shareholder.
As a well-known special effects production company in the United States, the silicon map company will develop rapidly in a few years, and it will be even more bullish in the future.
On the one hand, it does its own special effects, and on the other hand, it sells its own SGI workstations, which are equivalent to animation workbenches sold in Japan.
The films they made themselves, and the films they made on the SGI workbench, were famous.
"Avatar", "Titanic", "The Lord of the Rings", "Jurassic Park", "The Day After Tomorrow" ...... and so on, all of which must be produced by their technology in order to have such a good presentation effect and cause such a big sensation.
As long as he saw these names, Yin Jun felt that it would be a big waste not to recruit this company into the sequence of Qilin culture.
There's the digital realm, there's the silicon company, and then Microsoft can cultivate a series of software companies...... For Yin Jun's film entertainment empire, can there be a better configuration?
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